The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.

The best that science can devise and that naval organization can provide must be regarded only as an aid, and never as a substitute for good seamanship.

By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.

They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation.

We must not again underestimate the Japanese.

It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil.